hoariness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2020

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

So the wedding-day came, and grass and trees wore a fitting suit of crisp hoariness.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped 85 in gold and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground, a psalm of thanksgiving.

From King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre by Kean, Charles John

Hoar, hōr, adj. white or grayish-white, esp. with age or frost: mouldy.—n. hoariness: age.—v.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various